Ordering something to my Japanese address

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1. This is a copy of your post for archive/search purposes.

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   **Ordering something to my Japanese address**

   Posting here instead of /r/japanlife because it’s still a couple days before I arrive in Japan…

   I’ll soon be ordering something from an online storefront, which is my first time getting something shipped to my Japanese address. I’m filling out [this form](https://i.imgur.com/wJLj4Uu.png) and had a few questions about the nuances of it. It first asks for my 郵便番号 and 都道府県 which I obviously know how to fill in. But for the following fields:
   – For 市区郡, do I need to put the 市 at the end?
   – For 住所 1 行目, do I put my ward, subarea, chōme, and block & building number?
   – For 住所 2 行目, should I put my apartment building name, and my specific room number? Or how do I fill out my address, and break it up into line 1 and 2?
   – For 氏名, would it be good to have my name in both rōmaji and katakana?

   Thanks.

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2. >For 市区郡, do I need to put the 市 at the end?

   Yes so its like 〇〇市 or 〇〇区

   >For 住所 1 行目, do I put my ward, subarea, chōme, and block & building number?

   〇〇 X丁目 XX – XX / 〇〇 X – XX – XX

   >For 住所 2 行目, should I put my apartment building name, and my specific room number? Or how do I fill out my address, and break it up into line 1 and 2?

   〇〇〇〇〇〇ビル XXX室

   >or 氏名, would it be good to have my name in both rōmaji and katakana? (And should I do ‘first last’ or ‘last first’, if it matters?)

   Last name first name, just like how its appeared on any of your Japan ID, fill the katakana/hiragana only if specified, the system can be varied and not accepting non Japanese characters, or only accept full width characters (全角) , wouldn’t know unless you go to the next step of the form.

   Here is an example:

   **郵便番号** 104-0031

   **都道府県** 東京都

   **市区郡** 中央区

   **住所1行目** 京橋3-1-1

   **住所2行目** 東京スクエアガーデン 19階

   **氏名** MUSK ELON